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DLD 374: Your airline is intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your ticketing plan

• February 24, 2022
• Tagged as: 787, A380, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, ATL, Atlanta, Avelo, awards, BDL, Boeing, Breeze Airways, British Airways, California, Cape Town, Cathay Pacific, certification, CPT, Delta Air Lines, EWR, Hartford, Hawaii, Heathrow, HKG, Hong Kong, HVN, LHR, New Haven, Newark, podcast, rewards, routes, Trip Report, United Airlines

Should you subscribe to an airline’s recurring payment offerings? Probably not. But we’re going to talk about it a bit.

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DLD 366: A fresh start

• January 6, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 777, A380, engines, Etihad, MC-21, podcast, Pratt & Whitney, United Airlines

A new year, and we’re ready to go with fresh hot takes on all the latest aviation news.

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DLD 365: TATL Tales

• December 23, 2021
• Tagged as: A321neo, A321XLR, A350, A380, Air Europa, AirBaltic, Airbus, BOS, Boston, British Airways, BWI, elite status, Eurowings Discover, Finnair, IAG, Icelandair, jetblue, KLM, lawsuit, Lufthansa, masks, merger, Mosaic, Play, Qantas, Qatar Airways, St. Louis, STL, TATL, Transatlantic, Transavia, TrueBlue, upgrades

Lots of news in the Transatlantic market this week, with high hopes for Summer 2022. Lawsuits, and new elite status and maskholes, too.

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DLD 354: Generally speaking

• October 7, 2021
• Tagged as: A380, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, first class, Hong Kong, IATA, IATAAGM, IATAAGM21, premium cabin, Qatar Airways, routes, singapore airlines, Trip Report

We’re on location this week, recording at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Boston where industry CEOs and suppliers gathered to absolutely not collude on anything they cannot legally address.

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DLD 349: It’s a conspiracy!

• September 2, 2021
• Tagged as: 787, 787-10, 787-9, A321neo, A380, Air New Zealand, alitalia, awards, cash & points, Chicago, cruise, Delta Air Lines, frequent flier, frequent flyer, ITA Airlines, O'Hare, ORD, podcast, points, Qantas, rewards, singapore, Singapore Air, singapore airlines, South African Airways, United Airlines

Kicking off the show with a bad conspiracy theory about hurricanes probably isn’t our strongest play, but here we are. It gets better pretty quickly.

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DLD 348: Lost and Found

• August 26, 2021
• Tagged as: 747-8i, A380, Allegient Air, Allways Rewards, American Airlines, Avelo, Breeze, Breeze Airways, business class, economy class, jetblue, Korean Airlines, London, Mint, Newark, premium cabin, singapore, singapore airlines, TATL, Transatlantic, Trip Report, Turkish Airlines

We lost last week’s episode, but came back strong this time around with planes big and small crossing oceans and some fun new routes and money for US startups.

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DLD 346: Multiple meltdowns

• August 12, 2021
• Tagged as: A380, British Airways, COVID-19, COVID19, elite status, Emirates, eVTOL, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Frontier, Honduras, hotels, JFK Airport, Joby, London, New York City, Qatar Airways, Spirit Airlines, United Airlines, vaccines, Virgin Atlantic

Airline meltdowns happen form time to time, but this past week’s performances are surprisingly ugly.

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DLD 344: 49 States, and then some

• July 29, 2021
• Tagged as: A380, Aer Lingus, Aer Lingus UK, BizAv, Boston, business aviation, cruise, Eurowings, Florida, Malaysia Airlines, New York City, seaplanes, special guest

We’ve got a guest on this week, mixing educational fun with a likely new world record!

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DLD 310: Finally flying!

• September 24, 2020
• Tagged as: 747, A340-600, A380, Air Canada, Air India, British Airways, business class, cargo, Cathay Pacific, co-brand, credit card, credit cards, first class, loyalty, Lufthansa, Pakistan, PIT, Pittsburgh, podcast, Polaris, premium cabin, Rossiya, Trip Report, UAVs, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Volocopter

We’re back in the sky! Also, new doors, routes, snacks, and planes headed to storage.

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DLD 283: Death by a a thousand cuts

• March 12, 2020
• Tagged as: A380, bankruptcy, Brexit, China, COVID-19, EASA, FlyBE, IATA, Korean Air, London, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Group, podcast, Qantas, routes, slots, train

We’re trying to not just talk about the novel coronavirus all day, every day. But lately the challenges it creates have dominated the aviation industry. So we’re talking about it again. But some other stuff, too.